The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-12-03
ArLANTA--WET OR DRTs
Read and Hold Your Nose


day. The pFOllbltlOn law carried
here two years ago was defeated by
the overwhelming majority of 1144
votes. Every ward in the city was
carried by a good majority by the
anti-prohibitionists. and of the ten
precincts in the county outside only
one was carried by the prohibitionists.
Out Of a total registration of ll,140
votes in the county more than 10000
votes were polled, by far the largest
vote ever polled in the county. The
poll in the city was over 10000.
The fight has been a peculiarly Bit
ter one. For over a month the citi-
zens have been engaged in the contest.
Meetings have been held almost every
night, and local speakers and foreign
statesmen have stumped the county
from every eurbstone in the city and
every crossroads in the county. Early
in the campaign the prohiqitionists
leased the largest warehouse in the city
and fitted it up with a seating capacity
of 5000 people. Almost nightly that
building has been filed, and such
scenes of wild enthusiasm are rarely
witnessed. Almost every minister
preached prohibition from his pulpit
Sunday after Sunday. Both sides had
full campaign funds and managed
their respective claims for all they
were worth.
The negro vote was the bone of con-
tention and the balance of power.
Each side made the most strenuous
endeavors to secure it in every way
possible. The negroes were consider
ably divided on the subject, though
the majority of them voted with the
anti-prohibitionists
The scenes at the polls beggars de-
scription. Many of the ladies Of the
city We're on hand serving lunches and
hot coffee to prohibitionists, and urg-
ing them on to victory. The fair sex
gave the anti-prohibitionists the cold
shoulder all the way through, and re-
tired to their homes in the deepest sad
ness when the result became known.
Bands of little children singing hymns
were seen at the polls, who, between
their singing begged the voters to east
their ballots against the return of the
bar-rooms.
A most pathetic scene was observed
at the fifth ward polls, where poorly
clad and pale-faced factory children
sang ~IIome, Sweet Home" and 50
cred songs to the voters, and witt
tears in their eyes entreated them tC
vote against bar-rooms In many in
stances the anti-prohibitionists jeereC
these children, and Haunted their we
tickets, marked "for the SALE" in thei
faces
, At the third ward polls disgracefr
scenes were enacted. Abandoned ne
, gro women stood near the polls, shout
e ing for liquor and hooting at ever.
man who passed with blue badge on
Hundre dis OF citizens were challenged
at the polls by both factions. In tn
! fifth ward the vote Of DR.. J. b. Haw
: thorn, prohibition leader, was challen
gad and he was otherwise insulted
He denounced his challenger.
w. A. Fuller, anti-prohibitionisi
, took the required oath, deposited hi
ballot, and left in great rage. Tn
: anti-prohibtionists wore red badg
G with "liberty' marked on it, and il
Q many instances drunken negroes ap
: peared at the polls wearing red caps
D cloaks and streamers. The preacher:
the church people, and the bulk of th
better class of people, both white an
e colored, supported the prohibitio
D ticket, while a minority of Atlanta
respectable business men, the win
r room men, the bummers, and tn
h worst class Of the negro element worb
+ ed and voted for anti-prohibitionist
IS The election was carried by the mos
! vicious negro element, who had bee
d registered in large numbers by tn
i anti-prohibitionists, who paid thei
s taxes, thus making them voters.
s Tonight the streets are filed wit
o drunken and disorderly negroes, part
G ding with bottles llourished on the END
l. ofsticks, and making the town hideou
is with their howls. The city has gon
e wild with the jubilation of the ant
&c prohibitionists. The prohibitionist
'e assembled tonight. and after ringiil
Z speeches denouncing the methods {
Ie the opposition, and resolved to hold
IS mass meeting on Monday night,
'e which il win be decided whether ,
r, not they win contest the election b
Ig cause of the hundreds of Illegal yot
yh which it is claimed were cast by Il
" anti-prohibitionists.
d, There is intense bitterness betwet
~ The two factions, and several sire
lights have occurred tonight on a
m count of the election. The prohil
lg .ionists say that they viii never col
" promise on high license,
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il. The Cream of " Cnlchah."
:. Those who have read Beulah, Wash
= and the balance of Mrs. Augusta Eva